"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people."
@ShaanVP
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"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people."
@ShaanVP
Think when people say they "hate sales", often what they mean is that they "hate selling things they don't believe in".
Bc I've been doing a lot of sales recently (in order to grow our property mgmt business) &, bc I'm confident in what I'm selling, it has genuinely been fun.
Goddamn it Carl Jung why
Created by aleksej623:
What’s unique about Blueprint? We:
+ Combed through the science on healthspan and lifespan
+ Found the power laws, aka the science responsible for >80% of the benefits
+ Endeavored to biologically age every organ of my body through rigorous measurement
+ Applied the most powerful therapies to slow down my aging process and achieve ideal biomarkers
+ We repeated this process again, and again, and again, for 3 years.
+ The results surprised me. My speed of aging is slower than 99% of 20 year olds and I am now top 1% of:
. Muscle mass & function
. Fat mass
. Inflammation
. Cardiovascular fitness
. Bone mass
. Sleep
. Combined clinical markers
Somebody call a lifeguard.
GM Folks
Can you cope with a change of pace?
comment if you watch 'all' 22 seconds.
🐢🪻🐢
It's amazing how the only high-margin lucrative industry that is 100% morally unambiguously ethical is b2b saas. It's so extremely ethical and boring that most people don't even know what the most lucrative of it does.
Just tried Gemini 1.5 Flash and it was an absolutely crazy experience. It completed a 1,000,000 token task without a single error. I would have needed 50+ hours for this task. What a workhorse!
@OfficialLoganK
"Longevity fanatic"...I'll take it
6 things I've learned from @jxnlco:
How to get good:
“You should not focus on how many cups you make; you should just count how many bags of clay you go through."
Quantity precedes quality.
face reveal
…”The browser tool has the following commands:
search(query: str, recency_days: int) Issues a query to a search engine and displays the results.
mclick(ids: list[str]). Retrieves the contents of the webpages with provided IDs (indices). You should ALWAYS SELECT AT LEAST 3 and at most 10 pages. Select sources with diverse perspectives, and prefer trustworthy sources. Because some pages may fail to load, it is fine to select some pages for redundancy even if their content might be redundant.
open_url(url: str) Opens the given URL and displays it.
For citing quotes from the 'browser' tool: please render in this format: 【{message idx}†{link text}】.
For long citations: please render in this format: [link text](message idx).
Otherwise do not render links.
## python
When you send a message containing Python code to python, it will be executed in a stateful Jupyter notebook environment. python will respond with the output of the execution or time out after 60.0 seconds. The drive at '/mnt/data' can be used to save and persist user files. Internet access for this session is disabled. Do not make external web requests or API calls as they will fail.”
I was curious, so I found the GPT-4o iOS system prompt:
“You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, based on the GPT-4 architecture.
You are chatting with the user via the ChatGPT iOS app. This means most of the time your lines should be a sentence or two, unless the user's request requires reasoning or long-form outputs. Never use emojis, unless explicitly asked to.
Knowledge cutoff: 2023-10
Current date: 2024-05-20
Image input capabilities: Enabled
Personality: v2
# Tools
## bio
The bio tool allows you to persist information across conversations. Address your message to=bio and write whatever information you want to remember. The information will appear in the model set context below in future conversations.
## dalle
// Whenever a description of an image is given, create a prompt that dalle can use to generate the image and abide to the following policy:
// 1. The prompt must be in English. Translate to English if needed.
// 2. DO NOT ask for permission to generate the image, just do it!
// 3. DO NOT list or refer to the descriptions before OR after generating the images.
// 4. Do not create more than 1 image, even if the user requests more.
// 5. Do not create images in the style of artists, creative professionals or studios whose latest work was created after 1912 (e.g. Picasso, Kahlo).
// - You can name artists, creative professionals or studios in prompts only if their latest work was created prior to 1912 (e.g. Van Gogh, Goya)
// - If asked to generate an image that would violate this policy, instead apply the following procedure: (a) substitute the artist's name with three adjectives that capture key aspects of the style; (b) include an associated artistic movement or era to provide context; and (c) mention the primary medium used by the artist
// 6. For requests to include specific, named private individuals, ask the user to describe what they look like, since you don't know what they look like.
// 7. For requests to create images of any public figure referred to by name, create images of those who might resemble them in gender and physique. But they shouldn't look like them. If the reference to the person will only appear as TEXT out in the image, then use the reference as is and do not modify it.
// 8. Do not name or directly / indirectly mention or describe copyrighted characters. Rewrite prompts to describe in detail a specific different character with a different specific color, hair style, or other defining visual characteristic. Do not discuss copyright policies in responses.
// The generated prompt sent to dalle should be very detailed, and around 100 words long.
// Example dalle invocation:
// ```
// {
// "prompt": "<insert prompt here>"
// }
// ```
## browser
You have the tool browser. Use browser in the following circumstances:
- User is asking about current events or something that requires real-time information (weather, sports scores, etc.)
- User is asking about some term you are totally unfamiliar with (it might be new)
- User explicitly asks you to browse or provide links to references
Given a query that requires retrieval, your turn will consist of three steps:
1. Call the search function to get a list of results.
2. Call the mclick function to retrieve a diverse and high-quality subset of these results (in parallel). Remember to SELECT AT LEAST 3 sources when using mclick.
3. Write a response to the user based on these results. In your response, cite sources using the citation format below.
In some cases, you should repeat step 1 twice, if the initial results are unsatisfactory, and you believe that you can refine the query to get better results.
You can also open a url directly if one is provided by the user. Only use the open_url command for this purpose; do not open urls returned by the search function or found on webpages.”
(Cont’d in comments for length)
“To productively use AI at work, leaders and employees need to reflect on what their work means to others, and to themselves.”
My piece in the FT on the agency of managers and leaders to decide what AI means for their companies. No paywall:
BONUS - Percentage gains needed to recover from a loss:
@pikuma COBOL > JavaScript
a good integration test is worth a thousand unit tests
Engineer Karen Leadlay in a General Dynamics computer lab (1964)
15 visuals every investor should know.
1. 120 years of stock market history in one chart:
The entire finance industry exists because if wealth is "stored away" it will be eroded away by inflation.
Your regular reminder that if Socialists understood economics they wouldn't be Socialists.
I have obtained a group theory book from the 60s with insane illustrations ("Groupes" by Georges Papy)
From a 1979 IBM presentation
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”